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08-12-2010, 04:20 AM
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This Date in History - August 12th
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* 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by means of an asp bite.
* 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon – Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
* 1121 – Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
* 1164 – Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
* 1281 – The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
* 1323 – Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
* 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
* 1480 – Battle of Otranto – Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
* 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
* 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
* 1687 – Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
* 1793 – The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
* 1829 – Perth, Western Australia is founded.
* 1833 – Chicago is founded.
* 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
* 1898 – Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.
* 1914 – World War I – Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; countries of the British Empire are also included.
* 1943 – Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
* 1944 – Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
* 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets – thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
* 1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
* 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the richter.
* 1960 – Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched.
* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
* 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
* 1976 – Between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
* 1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
* 1977 – Start of Sri Lankan riots of 1977, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people this riot started less than a month after the United National Party came to power, over 300 Tamils are killed.
* 1978 – Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
* 1980 – Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
* 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
* 1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
* 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
* 1992 – Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
* 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
* 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
* 2004 – New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
* 2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
* 2007 – Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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This Date in History - August 12th
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* 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by means of an asp bite.
* 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon – Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
* 1121 – Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
* 1164 – Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
* 1281 – The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
* 1323 – Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
* 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
* 1480 – Battle of Otranto – Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
* 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
* 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
* 1687 – Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
* 1793 – The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
* 1829 – Perth, Western Australia is founded.
* 1833 – Chicago is founded.
* 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
* 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
* 1898 – Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States.
* 1914 – World War I – Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; countries of the British Empire are also included.
* 1943 – Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
* 1944 – Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
* 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets – thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
* 1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: the Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
* 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the richter.
* 1960 – Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched.
* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
* 1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
* 1976 – Between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
* 1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
* 1977 – Start of Sri Lankan riots of 1977, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people this riot started less than a month after the United National Party came to power, over 300 Tamils are killed.
* 1978 – Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
* 1980 – Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
* 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
* 1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
* 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
* 1992 – Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
* 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
* 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
* 2004 – New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
* 2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
* 2007 – Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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